Shorts
In which the author offers up to you, dear reader, a number of delights, for free, and with an accompanying Ginzu knife!
Read My Shorts!
The future is found in the folds…
Okay, not those kinds of shorts (while I do write fantasy, I have scrupulously resisted the temptation to dabble in the arts of the underwear occult). I’m talking about my short stories.
Note: if you like the stories here, you might want to read them as God intended–at the beach, on paper, bound with a cover, and nestled inbetween other delights. Just go to AnthologyBuilder.com and build your book there.
From the Clay of His Heart
As described by Edmund Schubert, the editor who bought it:
“It’s your typical girl-meets-golem, girl-can’t-rid-of-golem, girl-almost-loses-golem-to-evil-volhov story. You know how those go”
Read it online in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, issue 8: Spring 2008.
Loose in the Wires
Hick falls in love. Hick gets dumped. Hick brings back two African gods from Botswana to heal girlfriend’s fickle nature and arthritis…
Read it free here or with a bunch of other amazing, online stories in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, issue 1: 2005 (while all are good, there are three other stories in that issue that I think are fantastic).
An audio version read by the author is coming soon.
Forward, copy, share, & adapt this story to you heart’s content using this Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Bright Waters
A fearsome Dutch trapper, a spunky Irish woman stolen as a girl in an Abenaki raid, and a small Iroquois tattoo…
Reviews have called it “Extremely entertaining storytelling” SFSite.com, “A textbook example of the economy of craft” CityPaper.com, “A huge, immersive story with wonderful characters” Scifi.com
Originally published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 2005. Published also in “Best of the Rest 4″ and “Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.”
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The Scent of Desire
Ronald Wolf knew his deceased lovers had come back to make trouble when a large mallard tumbled like a drunkard out of a blue sky and smashed onto his porch…
This award-winner was originally published in “L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future,” v13, 1997 under the name Bo Griffin.
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Can I Really Share & Adapt John’s Stories?
The answer, if the stories are available here for free, is yes! You are licensed to do so under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license (CC license).
The only limitations on your use are defined here: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Caution: my stories that you obtain from another source are bound by the rights that publisher has acquired. For example, stories obtained from and available only through ”Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show,” are bound by normal copyright laws. However, if the story’s available for free here, even if it’s in print somewhere else, then no publisher has exclusive rights to the CC licensed version here, and you can go wild within the bounds of the CC license described above.
Remember, a CC license for a version of my work on this site does not give you authority to go wild with someone else’s artwork, audio, video, etc.–only the CC licensed stuff that’s posted here. Unless, of course, that other work is also available via a CC license.